Did they ever flub that one?!!

[Menard]

A favorite subject, probably for all of us, is mistakes that are obvious in movies.

Some examples are:

HALLOWEEN: This movie takes place in Illinois, but the license plates are California plates. There are also scenes where mountains and palm trees can be seen in the background.


ALIEN CONTAMINATION: My favorite part is where Ian McCulloch descibes the eggs he had seen as being green, just like in the pictures she is holding. The pictures are in black & white.


DOCTOR BUTCHER M.D./ZOMBIE HOLOCAUST: I think anybody who has seen this movie finds the mannequin suicide scene to be hilarious. When the jumper hits the ground, an arm on the mannequin flies off and across the sidewalk. When the camera is back on the actor, he is amazingly complete.


ZOMBIE 4: AFTERDEATH: These zombies are seriously confused (the lack of a plot probably helped), they cannot decide whether they should shamble and walk slowly or run and fight like they were in a kung-fu film, so they do both, often in the same scenes.



Does anybody else have any mistakes, flubs, bad timing, etc. from a movie they would like to share?

[Andrew]

I remember that, on two consecutive days, we watched Rae Dawn Chong movies and, in both, the cameraman was clearly visible in a reflection.  One of them was a shot where you could see the entire camera platform.  That was in Time Runner.  The film also has a mysteriously repaired car window.

My favorite is probably in Cthulhu Mansion when the one guy, who we just saw shot in the leg, walks by in the background of another scene.  I could swear it was the same guy.  However, someone posted to the comments on that movie and said that they were the actor who was "shot" and that it was not him.  The video clip is in the review, so please judge for yourself.   "Cthuhlu Mansion" also has a fridge that changes size.

[Menard]

I remember a scene in NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1990) where Ben (Tony Todd) is pushing a zombie out the kitchen door. When he shuts the door you can see the reflection of the cameraman in the glass.


I was watching a scene from FRIDAY THE 13TH, PART IX: JASON GOES TO HELL. The scene has Jason chasing a woman in a towel (I believe the FBI agent) through the woods. It shows a close-up of her bare feet as she is running. When the camera shows her running in a full length shot, she is wearing hiking boots.


I remembered you mentioning that in your review of CTHULHU MANSION about the guy being shot in the leg and being seen in the background. I will have to check that out again.

[Ed]

In the 2003 "King Arthur"... I think history will call it one of the 21st century's Bad Movies in gue time.  There is a  gate that the final quarter of the movie hinges on (no pun intended).  Every time they show it, it is in a different state of openness.   This is especially telling beciause the whole battle depends on it being CLOSED, yet seems to be flapping back and forth with every shot.   In the theatre we managed to get the whole crowd caling "Open" or "Closed" when ever it appeared during the climax of the movie.   It was a beautiful moment.
-Ed

[odinn7]

The Dr. Butcher mistake with the suicide was one of the things that made me love this movie. It's so ridiculous the way the scene works out and I have to wonder: didn't anyone notice this while filming? Did they figure the public wouldn't notice? I love that scene.

[Conrad]

Let's see ...  in "Ghost Ship" you have the salvor's tug, the Arctic Warrior, being rained upon in the middle ground (actually ocean).   The foreground is entirely free of rain, despite the enormous storm taking place.

Slightly more obscure - in "Forbidden Planet" you can see that the Atomic Death Rays projected from various cast member's pistols, especially during the Krell Monster attack, are not being fired axially from the weapons.  I.E. the process technicians were not paying enough attention in post-production!

In "Die Hard 2", our heroes escape from a floating bomb just as it explodes.  However, given that the floating bomb had the equivalent of a small nuke aboard, in terms  of explosive power, our heroes out to be Our Obituaries.  Our Obituaries Buried In Tea-Bags, for the detail enthusiasts.

[Master Blaster]

One in a major film that was pointed out to me was in Lord of the Rings Return of the King. During the last battle the good guys are on horses while they are being encircled by all the orcs and such. When they're completely encircled suddenly all of their horses are gone.

Also in another big picture, Triple X, You see Vin Diesel through a window and there's a crewmembers reflection as plain as day in it. I cant beleive they didnt catch that. It's as if nobody was paying attention during post production.

I havent found it myself, but supposedly in Nightmare City/City of the Walking Dead, in one of the helicopter shots of the zombies you can see one of them playing with a dog in the background. Apperently he didnt know they were filming.

[Flangepart]

Conrad : That missallingment with the ray guns happened in the Trek Classic "Devil in the dark" Kirk and Spock are pointing the phasers totaly in the wrong place when they zap the poor wee beastie.

[Eirik]

HALLOWEEN:  Forget the occasional palm tree, how about the fact that on October 31st in Illinois the trees are full of leaves and the only non-green leaves we see are a few scattered around the actors?

JAWS:  The reverse of Halloween.  Check the trees on the 4th of July - they're bare.  

DIE HARD 2:  At Dulles Airport (located on the east coast), Bruce Willis makes a call from a Pacific Bell telephone.  There are also numerous references to the DC police department and DC regulations...  Dulles airport is in Virginia.

JURASSIC PARK: In the final scene where the T-Rex fights the velociraptors, one velociraptor jumps through T-Rex like he's a giant hologram (they still get an A for the effects).

[Menard]

Since you mentioned the 4th of July, in RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD, which is supposed to be taking place on the 4th of July in Louisville, KY , most everybody is wearing a jacket (with, of course, the wonderful exception of Linnea Quigley's character). In the obverse is THE LURKING FEAR which takes place on Christmas in the Northeast. They are in the midst of a heatwave.

[JohnL]

>Let's see ... in "Ghost Ship" you have the salvor's tug, the Arctic Warrior, being
>rained upon in the middle ground (actually ocean). The foreground is entirely
>free of rain, despite the enormous storm taking place.

When Julianna Margulies is walking down the corridore to Katie's room, she's already wearing the locket that she hasn't found yet.

>Slightly more obscure - in "Forbidden Planet" you can see that the Atomic Death
>Rays projected from various cast member's pistols, especially during the Krell
>Monster attack, are not being fired axially from the weapons. I.E. the process
>technicians were not paying enough attention in post-production!

Also in that scene is a shot of (I think) Leslie Neilson just casually holding his gun rather than pretending to fire it and they added in a stream of rays from it anyway.

Lethal Weapon has a couple good ones. Gibson tells Glover that he has a special hollow pointed bullet for when he wants to kill himself, but it's a non-hollow point. When he and the suicidal guy jump off the building, the chain on the fake handcuffs breaks and they hold hands. Gibson is barefoot when he breaks in to rescue Glover, but when they go out into the club seconds later, he has tennis shoes on. Also, on the way out of the back room, Gibson kills a guy in the rafters who falls and ends up hanging upside down in front of them. Gibson asks "Is it Joshua?" and Glover replies "No, it's not him". Huh? Why is he asking his partner for confirmation when he just spent like an hour face to face with the guy?

Also, pretty much *ANY* movie where they record someone's speech, when they play it back, it will be different from what the person actually said.



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[ulthar]

JohnL wrote:

> Gibson is barefoot when
> he breaks in to rescue Glover, but when they go out into the
> club seconds later, he has tennis shoes on.

I've heard of this one before; while he's talking, I believe you can see Mel taking the shoes off of one of the dead guys..wasn't that the scene where you can see him holding the shoe up to his foot to see if it will fit?

I've mentioned this one before: Tom Cruise in "A Few Good Men" opens the door for Demi Moore to leave his apartment, cut to different angle and the door is closed so he opens it for her to leave.  That's one of my favorites.

And I saw a flub just like that on Committed the other night.....

[Eirik]

There's a ton of mistakes in Pulp Fiction, but true fans of the movie will try to argue that Tarantino the Genius intended to make them to either provoke thought or make the audience question its own perceptions of the world (or somesuch nonsense)...

Amanda Plummer's line at the outset of her and Tim Roth's robbery changes from the first to the second time.

The bullet holes are already in the wall before the last shooter comes out and misses Vincent and Jules.

Vincent claims to not watch television, but two scenes later he's talking about this episode of Cops he saw.

When Vincent and Mia return home from Jackrabbit Slims, Mia's coat is on in one shot off in the next, on again, off again.

When Eric Stoltz opens his front door, a car zooms by.  He walks out into the yard in a running shot to see the crashed car in the side of his house... but you can see the tire tracks on the lawn of the car that actually drove by going off into the distance.

There's too many more to mention.

[trekgeezer]

There is a scene that has always bugged the hell out of me.  Glover and Mel are driving in a car that is obviously being towed and their individual dialogues were filmed separately. If you watch, everytime they switch back to Danny Glover driving, the steering wheel and the shifter are in different positions (sometimes the shifter is actually in Park).

[Jack Corbett]

Heh heh heh heh heh...

Don't get me started on Movie Mistakes... I won't be able to stop...



UNDEAD (2003):

- During the first zombie siege, Harrison fires 14 rounds out of a seven round revolver.
- Marion is naked as they enter the convienience store. A few shots later he is wearing boxers.
- In the zombie fish flashback scenes, the clouds coming out of the spaceship are the same as the ones that form behind the main titles at the beginning.
- When the "Bugger Me!" guy gets his head knocked off by the grandma zombie at the beginning, the body raises slightly as it leans forward and sprays blood onto the camera, suggesting that it is a puppet.
- "Chip" Chipperson should have had the front of his head ripped off by the shovel when he walked into the sign, not just his face.
- A crook lock cannot split a person in half vertically, no matter HOW hard you hit them with it.
- The guy that is driving Rene shouldn't be able to control his legs if he is sitting on them after being blown in half.
- Harrisons shotgun disappears when Marion throws it down to catch his handguns, but Harrison picks it up a few minutes later.
- Pens, if thrown like a throwing knife, can NOT pierce a shaken up deoderant can so it explodes, even if it DOES blow a zombie's head off.


Well, when the film comes out in America, you sould check it out. Pretty impressive for a $800,000 movie. Pretty funny, too.